STIR UP FIERCE DEBATE. WE WILL SHOW YOU THE STORY ANYWAY. IT MIGHT BE SETTLED THANKS TO GROUND BREAKING NEW RESEARCH. LOCAL 6 LI 6 LISA BELL TAKES US INSIDE THE LAB TO SHOW US THE VIDEO EVIDENCE OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE MALE AND FEMALE HEART. IT'S A QUESTION THAT GOES BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME. WHO IS STRONGER? MEN OR WOMEN? LOOKING GOOD. SOMETHING RYAN EGATO AND HIS WIFE TARA BATTLE OVER ALL THE TIME ESPECIALLY AT THE GYM. BRIAN AND I MAKE EVERYTHING A COMPETITION, EVERYTHING. BOTH ARE IN GREAT SHIP. SHAPE. IN THE H END, THEY HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP TO BELIEVE MEN ARE THE STRONGER SEX. BIGGER, TALLER, MORE MUSCLE MASS. YOU GUYS ARE WIMPS, WHAT CAN I SAY. LANDMARK RESEARCH BEING DONE BY DORIS TAYLOR AT THE TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE CLAIM WOMEN HAVE GOT MEN BEAT. IT IS A DIFFERENCE IN THE UNDERLYING STRUCTURE OF VIRTUALLY EVERY ORGAN. YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE EVEN FEEL IT. I HAVE A FEMALE HEART AND A MALE HEART. TAKE HEARTS, FOR EXAMPLE, DR. TAYLOR EXAMINES MALE AND FEMALE PIG HEARTS NEARLY IDENTICAL OF THE HUMAN HEART AND STRIP THEM OF ALL CELLS SO SHE COULD LOOK AT THE BASIC STRUCTURE. FIRST, FEMALE HEART. LOOK AT IT. FEMALE HEART IS SMALL, COMPACT, TONED. NOW THE MALE HEART. SOFT, LOOSE, THIN WALLS ALMOST RUNNY. IT'S LIKE A GIANT BLOB. LIKE AN OLD BAD SOCK. THEN THERE ARE THE STEM CELLS. THE BODY'S SUPER POWERED REPAIR SYSTEM. LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE. RESEARCH SHOWS THE POWER OF FEMALES STEM CELLS ON THE LEFT COMPARED WITH MALE STEM CELLS ON THE RIGHT. WOMEN HAVE FAR MORE STEM CELLS AND LAST A LOT LONGER. IF MY CELLS ARE BETTER THAN YOUR CELLS, WOULDN'T YOU WANT MY CELLS IN YOUR HEART TO MAKE IT BETTER? DR. TAYLOR'S GOAL IN ALL OF THIS? TO HARVEST SUPER POWERED STEM CELLS WOMEN HAVE AND INJECT THEM INTO MEN AND WOMEN SUFFERING FROM HEART DISEASE, KIDNEY DISEASE, DIABETES AND MORE AND CURE THEM. THE GOAL NOW IS TO NOT JUST MAKE IT 10% BETTER BUT MAKE IT 80% BETTER AND I'M BETTING ON FEMALE CELLS FOR THAT. ALL RIGHT, SO DR. TAYLOR SAYS ALL THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE HEART AND STEM CELLS MAY EXPLAIN WHY MEN DIE OF HEART DISEASE SO MUCH YOUNGER THAN WOMEN DO. I ASSUMED IT WAS ALL THE BARBECUE WE ATE. THAT ALSO DOES NOT HELP. YOU GUYS ARE WALKING AROUND WITH LITTLE SOLD SOCKS IN PLACE OF YOUR HEART IS HOW SHE DESCRIBED IT. SO INTERESTING. A LITTLE GROSS. I'M GOOD WITH THIS.

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It's a question that goes back to the beginning of time -- who's stronger, men or women? It's something that Brian Egwuatu and his wife, Kara Egwuatu, battle over all the time.

"Oh, Brian and I make everything a competition, everything; working out, driving home from work, running at the track," Kara Egwuatu said.

"Definitely, men are stronger, there is no doubt," Brian Egwuata said.

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But now landmark research being conducted at The Texas Heart Institute by Dr. Doris Taylor and her team is proving for the first time that women, from their stem cells to their hearts, have got men beat big-time.

"There's a difference in the underlying structure of every organ, the blood vessels, the liver, the kidney, the lungs," Taylor said.

She said you can actually see the difference.

Take hearts, for example. Taylor took male and female pig hearts, nearly identical to the human heart, and stripped them of all cells so she could study their basic structure. She found the female hearts were taught and toned, plump and muscular looking, like a picture of a heart you would see drawn in a book.

The male hearts were much softer, loose, thin-walled and generally kind of limp looking.

Holding up a male pig heart, Taylor said, "Look at this, it looks like an old, bad sock."

And then there are the stem cells, the body's super-powered repair system. Taylor's research shows female stem cells are six or seven times more powerful than men's in many cases. Not only that -- women have far more stem cells than men and male stem cells die out far earlier in life.

"What we are saying is, 'Wow, just look at these cells from women that are so much stronger and so much better.' If my cells are better than yours, wouldn't you want my cells injected into your heart to make it better, healthier?" Taylor said.

She said her goal in the future is to inject female stem cells into men and women who are suffering from heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, and other diseases to repair the damage and hopefully cure the sickness.

After all, she said, "Stem cells are us, another reason women rock."

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